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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Ships (Ki-Kz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		King Edward was a class of British first-class battleships of 16350 tons displacement, a speed of 18.
		The King Edward VII was a British first-class battleship of the King Edward class.
		King George V had a displacement of 35000 tons and was manned by a war-time complement of 1900.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /R9B.HTM (2686 words)

	King Edward VII class battleship
		The King Edward VII-class battleship was a class of warships launched by the Royal Navy between 1903-05 in response to the emerging navies of Japan and the USA.
		The King Edward VII-class ships were built as a response, with the intention of halting the gap in firepower and maintaining the dominance of the Royal Navy.
		The King Edward's were made quickly obsolete by 1906, with the launch of the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought, from which derives the 'dreadnought' type of battleship.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/king_edward_vii_class_battleship (499 words)

	Encyclopedia: King Edward VII class battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The King Edward VII class was a class of battleships launched by the Royal Navy between 1903 and 1905 in response to the emerging navies of Japan and the USA.
		The King Edwards though, mounted an impressed four 9.2-inch guns that could prove a formidable and potent weapon during any type of engagement, due to its heavier shells compared to the shells of the standard 6-inch guns with the additional advantage of it retaining its ability to quick-fire.
		King Edward VII - The name-ship of the class had a far shorter career than her sister-ships.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/King-Edward-VII-class-battleship (537 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS King Edward VII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His Majesty King Edward VII (9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of the Commonwealth realms, and the Emperor of India.
		Shipwrecks The King Edward VII class was a class of battleships launched by the Royal Navy between 1903 and 1905 in response to the emerging navies of Japan and the USA.
		The sixth HMS Britannia of the British Royal Navy was a pre-Dreanought battleship of the King Edward VII class, launched in 1904.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-King-Edward-VII (1057 words)

	Knowledge King - HMS Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A later HMS Africa was a pre-Dreadnought battleship; the last battleship constructed at Chatham Dockyard, England - subsequent classes being too large for the yard.
		She was the penultimate King Edward VII Class Battleship, being commissioned in 1905.
		In 1917, she went into refit and had the 6 inch guns on the main deck replaced with four 6 inch guns a deck higher because the original guns were awash in even slightly rough weather.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/h/hm/hms_africa.html (503 words)

	King Edward VII class battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The King Edward VII-class battleship was a classof warships launched by the Royal Navy between 1903 - 05 in response to the emerging navies of Japan and the USA.
		The King Edward's though,mounted an impressed 4 x 9.2-inch guns that could prove a formidable and potent weapon during any type of engagement, due to it'sheavier shells compared to the shells of the standard 6-inch guns with the additional advantage of it retaining it's ability toquick-fire.
		The King Edward's were made quickly obsolete by 1906, with thelaunch of the revolutionary HMSDreadnought, from which derives the 'dreadnought' type of battleship.
	www.therfcc.org /king-edward-vii-class-battleship-302772.html (429 words)

	King Edward VII - Ships - Hilfskreuzer SMS Moewe.
		She was the first of a class of eight battleships sometimes known as the Empire class, because with the exception of the King Edward, all the vessels bore the names of divisions of the British Empire.
		Edward VII, born November 9, 1841, was the eldest son of Queen Victoria.
		Edward VII was the father of George V, the king of Great Britain and Ireland during World War I. King Edward VII was the uncle of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
	www.smsmoewe.com /ships/smsms34.htm (364 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS King Edward VII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Well out of date by the time World War I began, the class comprised the third battle squadron during the war.
		King Edward VII was mined off Cape Wrath (in 58°43N, 4°4W) on January 6, 1916, in a minefield laid by the German raider Möwe.
		None of the class engaged a German ship during World War I, although HMS Britannia was sunk by U-50 off Cape Trafalgar on November 9, 1918.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_052200_hmskingedwar.htm (168 words)

	King Edward VIII
		The coverage of the tour was highly sympathetic to the King: it followed him as he walked among the poor, visited their homes, mixed mortar at their instruction, doffed his hat and nodded his head, and showed his evident distress at their sufferings.
		After demobilization, Edward took an active interest in the work of Toc H, an organization that was set up to provide a refuge for veterans of all ranks of men and officers, and the British Legion, which was founded in 1921 to cater for their welfare.
		In 1936 Edward was forty-two, whereas Baldwin was sixty-nine and Chamberlain sixty-seven.
	www.orwelltoday.com /kingedwardviii.shtml (7048 words)

	HMS King Edward VII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS King Edward VII, named after King Edward VII, was the lead ship of the King Edward VII class of British Royal Navy battleships.
		King Edward VII hit a mine whilst travelling from Rosyth to Davonport around the Northern coast of Scotland for a refit.
		The mine had been laid by the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Moewe off Cape Wrath on 6 January 1916.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_King_Edward_VII (303 words)

	KE 97 Photo Gallery
		Splendid looking ships, the class were conceded to have been some of the best-proportioned battleships of their day.
		Britannia (King Edward class) October 1914, showing her forecastle, forward 12" turret and bridgework, also quarter deck looking back at Hindustan which is rolling well.
		Loss of the HMS King Edward VII, fatally stricken off Pentland Firth on 6th January 1916, she inclines slowly to starboard which allowed her crew time to abandon ship.
	website.lineone.net /~britannic98/prevexp/ke_photo.htm (231 words)

	Royal Navy PreDreadnoughts
		Victoria was the first British battleship to be powered by triple expansion engines, though to little advantage, with the low length on breadth ration of 5:1.
		This class was the last of the single citadel turret battleships, and were the heaviest British warships built at the time.
		The Barfleurs were intended as second class battleships, authorised by the 1889 Naval Defence Act.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /aj.cashmore/britain/british-pre.html (524 words)

	HMS Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was the penultimate King Edward VII class battleship, beingcommissioned in 1905.
		However, in May 1912 she was brought back to full crew with the 3rd Battle Squadron, which was made up ofthe eight King Edward VII class battleships.
		In 1917, she went into refit and had the 6 inch guns on the main deck replaced with four 6 inch guns adeck higher because the original guns were awash in even slightly rough weather.
	www.therfcc.org /hms-africa-300730.html (495 words)

	King Edward VII Class Battleship - HMS Africa, Britannia, Commonwealth, Dominion, Hibernia, Hindustan, New Zealand
		After several very similar looking classes the King Edward VII class were quite distinctive with their larger close set funnels and the turrets for the 9.2 inch guns at the corners of the superstructure.
		Different ships in the class were fitted with different boilers to enable assessment of the different types available.
		Although designed as all coal burning ships during construction the class (except HMS New Zealand) were fitted with oil and oil sprayers, the first British to be fitted.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /pre-dreadnought/hms-king-edward-vii.html (723 words)

	Battleship New Jersey Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On 24 March she again carried out the vital battleship role of heavy bombardment, preparing the invasion beaches for the assault a week later.
		She was the scene of official receptions at Oslo, where King Haakon VII of Norway inspected the crew 2 July, and at Portsmouth, England.
		The battleship was under fire at Wonsan 27-29 May, but her five-inch guns silenced the counter fire, and her 16 inch shells destroyed five gun emplacements and four gun caves.
	www.battleshipnewjersey.org /index.cfm?fa=history&hist=full (4244 words)

	King edward - LuckyWebs.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edward III was born at Windsor, the eldest son of Edward II and Isabella of France.
		King Edward VII Preparatory School is a boys' government school situated in Houghton, Johannesburg.
		King Edward VI Community College, popularly known as KEVICC, is situated in the historic Devon town of Totnes.
	www.kevin.luckywebs.com /?q=king-edward (945 words)

	The Grand Fleet
		The battleships not included in the Grand Fleet were all of them pre-Dreadnoughts and therefore inferior fighting units.
		The inclusion of the K. class submarines—submarines of high speed—in the Grand Fleet in 1917 made it very probable that any losses suffered by us by submarine attack would be more than compensated by enemy losses from the same cause.
		In spite of the fact that, in 1918, the situation in regard to battle cruisers was becoming unsatisfactory, the general effect of all these considerations upon the tactics of the Grand Fleet was bound to be overwhelming.
	www.richthofen.com /jellicoe/jellicoe11.htm (850 words)

	KBismarck.com - Operation Rheinübung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The battleship Rodney (Captain Frederick H. Dalrymple-Hamilton) was at sea to the west of Ireland on her way to Boston for repairs with destroyers Somali, Tartar, Mashona, and Eskimo of the 6th Flotilla escorting the liner Britannic (27,759 tons), now used as a troop transport.
		The battleship Ramillies (Captain Arthur D. Read) to the South of Cape Farewell was also instructed to leave the convoy she was escorting (HX-127) and "proceed so as to make contact with enemy from westwards, subsequently placing enemy between Ramillies and C.-in-C".
		The King George V was 135 miles to the north, and the Rodney (with a top speed of 21 knots) was 125 miles to the northeast.
	www.kbismarck.com /operheini.html (10642 words)

	The History of Naval Design
		The ultimate humiliation was the loss of the battleship Victoria, which collided with the Camperdown and sank in the Mediterranean in 1893, with heavy loss of life, during one such elaborate display.
		Battleships at sea developed elaborate manoeuvres to protect themselves by turning towards, or away from, the tracks of torpedoes.
		At 17,900 tons, she was designed to render all other battleships obsolete, and to give Britain a lead in building capital ships which she could not lose.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/scnavdes.htm (3697 words)

	Department of Global Nostalgia
		The hôtelier César Ritz had a nervous breakdown, partly caused, it was rumoured, by the cancellation of King Edward VII’s coronation dinner.
		King Alexander I and Queen Draga of Serbia (Yugoslavia) were assassinated by a gang of army officers in Belgrade.
		King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra paid an official visit to Ireland.
	www.icols.org /pages/ATrumb/ATrumb1903.html (1748 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Dreadnought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As the century wore on, warships shed their rigging and came to rely exclusively on coal-fired compound and triple-expansion steam engines, and they exchanged their broadside batteries for casemates, barbettes, and finally turrets.
		By the turn of the century, the ideal battleship bristled with a battery of mixed large-caliber guns.
		The King Edward VII class of 1901 mounted four 12-inch, four 9.2-inch, and ten 6-inch guns, and the Lord Nelson s of 1904 carried four 12-inch and ten 9.2-inch guns.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_028300_hmsdreadnoug.htm (946 words)

	HMS Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A VII class battleship">King Edward VII class battleship[?] commissioned in 1905.
		She was part of the British squadron commanded by Sir Philip Broke[?] at the celebrated battle between HMS Guerriere[?] and USS Constitution which took place on August 12, 1812.
		She was the penultimate VII Class Battleship">King Edward VII Class Battleship[?], being commissioned in 1905.
	www.termsdefined.net /hm/hms-africa.html (680 words)

	Queen Class Battleship - HMS Queen, Prince of Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although basically repeats of the Formidable and Bulwark classes the Queen class lacked ventilation cowls, the upper deck 12 pounder guns were open rather than enclosed by bulwarks, had kidney shaped fighting tops and stockless anchors.
		This pair of virtual copies of the formidable class were ordered to complete a tactical group of eight similar ships whilst at the same time allowing work on the next class (King Edward VII) to proceed.
		It had been originally intended to fit the class with water tube Belleville boilers but that had been maintenance problems with these in service and so during construction Queen was fitted with Babcock and Wilcox cylindrical boilers.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /pre-dreadnought/hms-queen.html (340 words)

	Gallery Battleships
		class, was laid down during the Tsarist regime in response to the Turkish deployment.
		, battleship of the Marine Nationale, by Hi-Mold.
		Borodino, Imperial Russian Battleship 1904 - Four battleships of this class formed the backbone of the Imperial Russian Second Pacific Squadron at Tsushima, where three were sunk and one captured.
	www.steelnavy.com /gallery_battleships.htm (6752 words)

	KE 97 How it All Started
		The wreck of the HMS King Edward VII was first brought to my attention during a conversation with
		A quote taken from Gordon Ridley's book "Dive Scotland" (Volume III), in reference to HMS King Edward VII: "The depth is 108m with a clearance of 94m, so the wreck is only of academic interest to sport divers".
		Despite the non-existence of photographs of this M class destroyer, Major Neil Russell's men were able to make what they thought was a positive identification.
	website.lineone.net /~britannic98/prevexp/ke_start.htm (781 words)

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		9 16", 20 5" class IOWA The second NEW JERSEY (BB-62) was launched 7 December 1942 by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; sponsored by Mrs.
		Its plan for the Battle for Leyte Gulf included a feint by a northern force of planeless heavy attack carriers to draw away the battleships, cruisers and fast carriers with which Admiral Halsey was protecting the landings.
		The battleship was under fire at Wonsan 27-29 May, but her five- inch guns silenced the counter-fire, and her 16-inch shells destroyed five gun emplacements and four gun caves.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/USN/battleships/bb62.txt (4251 words)

	m class subs
		She had been laid down in the Vickers yard at Barrow as the K-18, but was altered to take a 12-inch gun from one of the Edward VII class of battleships.
		At the same time as this chilling statement the Admiralty issued a list of seven officers and 53 petty officers and ratings on board the submarine at the time, adding "their death must therefore now be presumed".
		The King sent his deep sympathy and that of the Queen to be conveyed to the families of all those who had been lost, and also to all the officers and men serving in His Majesty's submarines on the loss of their comrades.
	www.btinternet.com /~weybsac/diving/dive_sites/m_class_subs.htm (5175 words)

	Acorazado de la clase de rey Edward VII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Las naves de la Vii-clase de rey Edward fueron construidas como respuesta, con la intención de parar la separación en potencia de fuego y de mantener la dominación de la marina real.
		El rey Edward sin embargo, los 4 armas impresionados montados de x un 9.2-inch que podrían probar una arma formidable y potente durante cualquier tipo de contrato, debido a sus cáscaras más pesadas comparó a las cáscaras de los armas estándares 6-inch con la ventaja adicional de ella que conservaba su ra'pido-fuego de la capacidad.
		Rey Edward VII del HMS - nombre-enviar de la clase tenía una carrera lejos más corta que ella hermana-envi'a.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ac/Acorazado%20de%20la%20clase%20de%20rey%20Edward%20VII.htm (528 words)

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